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News Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism: The Word That Fuels Endless War Journalist Glenn Greenwald explains the importance of challenging how this powerful word is used by those who always say only describes the violence of others and never their own. Read more |
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News Greenwald: Harper Government Exploiting Recent Attacks to Expand Powers Prime Minister, says journalist, is exploiting recent violence in Canada to 'further dismantle civil liberties and core principles of western justice' Read more |
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Views Harper and Malala Ian Fleming famously wrote, "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action." The day Malala Yousafzai was to be conferred with an honorary Canadian citizenship, a Canadian soldier was shot dead at the War Memorial on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Two days before Malala... Read more |
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Views Who are the Victims of Wednesday's Attacks at the War Memorial and on Parliament Hill? The news that a soldier was shot at the War Memorial broke at just before 10.00 a.m. Wednesday, October 22. On CBC Radio One's local Ottawa newscast, reporter Giacomo Panico breathlessly described the scene at the Memorial, which is just two blocks from the CBC studios. Panico said that people on... Read more |
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Views Ottawa Shooting: Harper’s Pro-US Agenda Has Turned Canada into a Target – and Divided Society The impact of the country’s participation in the US-led war against Isis has already been felt Read more |
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News Two Confirmed Dead In Shooting Near Canadian Parliament Police are searching for "multiple shooters" Read more |
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Views Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers UPDATE : Multiple conservative commentators have claimed that this article and my subsequent discussion of it are about this morning’s shooting of a solider in Ottawa . Aside from the fact that what I wrote is expressly about a completely different incident – one that took place in Quebec on Monday... Read more |
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News Voices Renew Call for Inquiry into Missing, Murdered Aboriginal Women During this week's Aboriginal Women's Summit, First Nations leaders work toward national roundtable on topic Read more |
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Views 800+ Scientists Urge Greater Freedoms for Canadian Government Experts New restrictions have made it difficult for scientists around the globe to collaborate with Canadian government scientists. In response, more than 800 scientists from 32 countries have signed a letter urging Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper to “remove excessive and burdensome restrictions and... Read more |
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Views From Israel to ISIS: Harper's 'Orwellian' Foreign Policy It's getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations. But we should try. Perhaps a first step in returning to such a time was the decision of the NDP and Liberal Party to... Read more |